Contents: INTRODUCTION * THE HEALTH CARE SYSTEM OF THE FUTURE * Integrated Delivery Systems * Pressure To Accept Capitation * More Pressure To Truly Reduce Health Care Costs * The Business of Health Care Summary * THE FINANCIAL STATEMENTS SHORT COURSE * Absolutely, Positively the Most Important Management Tool * Good Suits and Financial Statements Must Be Tailor Made * If They're Not on Time and Accurate, Throw 'Em Back * Numbers Hardly Ever Lie * Find the Bad News, or It Will Surely Find You * Sometimes You Need a Scalpel and Sometimes an Axe * Financial Statements in a Nutshell * THE FEE-SETTING SHORT COURSE * Physicians Can Talk about Sex Easier Than They Can Talk about Fees * A Blind Person Should Always Know Where He or She Is Standing * RBRVS by the Same People Who Brought You the IRS * Managing Managed Care * Fee Setting in a Nutshell * THE CAPITATION SHORT COURSE * THE ACCOUNTS RECEIVABLE SHORT COURSE * Until It's Cash, It's Only Paper * You Can Pay Me Now or Pay Me Later, Maybe * Accounts Receivable in a Nutshell * THE SHORT COURSE ON COMPETITION * What You and a Mercedes Benz Have in Common * You Already Have the Best Marketing People in the World Working for You * Tastefully Spreading the Word * Marketing in a Nutshell * THE STAFF MANAGEMENT SHORT COURSE * No Physician Is an Island * If You Think Competent People Are Expensive, Try Hiring Incompetents * A Word About the Bad Egg * Won't Somebody Tell Me How I'm Doing? * There, Under That Pile of Dust. Isn't That Our Policies and Procedures Manual? * Looking for the Leader * Staff Management in a Nutshell * THE SHORT COURSE ON ADVISORS * Beware of the Firm Handshake and the Big Smile; It's All the Same to Me; I'm Paid by the Hour; I'm on Commission, and I Love You Advisors in a Nutshell * THE RETIREMENT SHORT COURSE * I Hope You're Not Depending on Social Security * So, How Much is Enough? * How To Get There from Here * The Best Retirement Plans for Medical Practices * Retirement in a Nutshell.